prang

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  1. transitive verb Chiefly British To crash (an airplane, for example).
  2. transitive verb Chiefly British To damage by colliding with (a car, for example).
  3. transitive verb Chiefly British To bomb from the air.

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  • He went lurching toward the place where the flyer stood, covered by camouflage netting, one landing strut broken and one wing partly crushed by his prang-in. —  The Many-Coloured Land -- Julian May
  • The sunlight reflected from the polished metal Vader prang, cop slang for the pencil-thin scene analyzer mounted on the southwest edge of the rock plate. —  AnalogSFF,October2007
  • It was a real prang, though, authentic enough to get Shad and me there. —  AnalogSFF,October2007
  • This is a critically unstable system, driven by and for the idiot class - it'll prang. —  The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed
  • To its immense credit, the Ministry of Defence is having none of the Lincolnshire UFO turbine prang shocker. —  The Register
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